History of Origin of Some Clans in India/Jat From Jutland/Elam
History of Origin of Some Clans in India
(with special Reference to Jats)
By Mangal Sen Jindal (1992)
Publisher - Sarup & Sons, 4378/4B, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002, ISBN 81-85431-08-6
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Chapter 1: Jat From Jutland
Elam
"A foreign dynast that for six centuries, held South Babylonia, were the Kosseans, a warlike and enterprising race who
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descended from the mountainous Lands of Elam on the east. The Egyptian inscriptions mention that their kings sent letters and presents to the Pharaohs. It is not known whether they were akin to the Elamites, a people who had always been at war with the Babylonians, and one of whose recorded invasions was several centuries before the advent of this dynasty. During the Kossean rule, beginning about 1749 B.C., many improvements were made in Babylonia, including the building of two great temples-one in the capital to Bel, and another at Borsippa to Nebo.
The Elamites on the east were often descending on South Babylonia to plunder and destroy, and one of their kings, known to readers of the Bible as Chenorlaomer, not only annexed part of Chaldea , but marched westward across the Arabian desert and gained a celebrated victory in the district of the Jorden and 'Lake Siddim'. This was the battle of 'Four kings against Five', in which Lot was taken, and carried away from Sodom 'with all his goods'. Lot's uncle, the partriarchul founder of the race of Israel, having pursued the victorious army of the Elamites and Chaldeans as far as Damascus, attacked them by night, and rescued 'and brought back Lot and his goods and the women also and the people', One of the four kings is called 'Amraphel, king of Shinar', and is no doubt Amarpal, a king of Babylon, since 'Shinar' was merely the Herbrew spelling of Shumir, South Babylonia. Amarpal had a son Hammurabi, more famous than himself, of whom mention has already been made. . . .. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the East, pages 37 and 38.
Elam: "Disaster struck on about 2006 B.C., when Elamites from the highlands to the last destroyed the city. The Sumerians were never again a dominant element politically, but their culture persisted as the foundation for all subsequent civilizations in the Tigris Euphrates valley." Civilization Past and Present, page 19. American Library. New Delhi.
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From the above quotations, we must infer that after the fall of Elam kingdom, the Jats of that kingdom migrated into India and some of them during the course of time, migrated to what is now District Muzaffarnagar and on settling named their
village 'Elam'. Elam on Shahadra- Saharanpur route is an important and very-well-to-do Jat village. This name is after their old kingdom in Persia as Baraut (Barot) in Meerut District is named after Broach on River Narmada near Surat and Barod (Baroda), the area from where the Jats of this town
migrated.